COMPANY

Leadership

Deidre Paknad
President & CEO, PSS Systems, Founder, CGOC

Deidre leads the company and drives its solution vision. She founded the CGOC, a professional community on retention and preservation, in early 2004 to assemble an ecosystem of domain experts to inform the company’s product and market strategies. She is a member of several Sedona working groups including legal holds and legacy data and is a recognized subject matter expert on legal holds and enterprise retention. Deidre is a seasoned entrepreneur and executive with 23 years' experience. After 10 years in corporate operations roles, she moved to developing business solutions for companies including software for SEC and FDA regulated markets. Before joining PSS, Deidre was at Certus, where she launched the company’s Sarbanes Oxley compliance strategy and solution.

Prior to Certus, Deidre founded and was CEO of CoVia Technologies from 1996 to 2000. Under her leadership, the company achieved significant customer success with companies such as American Airlines, ADP, Credit Suisse, First American Financial, Intuit, Wells Fargo and others. Deidre and the company were inducted into the Smithsonian Institution for innovation in 1999 and again in 2000. She has held numerous marketing and operations management positions in the software, consumer, and healthcare industries. She graduated from the University of California.

Scott Cohen
Vice President, Sales

Scott Cohen leads PSS's sales effort. His track record of success in enterprise software sales includes rapidly growing companies’ footprint in emerging markets and securing market leadership in high-growth organizations. He has successfully established market leadership positions in such categories as enterprise governance, risk, and compliance management, supply chain management, and supplier management. Most recently, Scott served as the Director of Strategic Accounts and Director of International Sales at Certus Software, where he was responsible for the companies early and ongoing sales successes. Scott helped guide his customers to more scalable, sustainable approaches to Sarbanes Oxley compliance as they faced new rules, requirements and process challenges. He was responsible for growing the Fortune 500 and international market from the company's inception to its world class customer base, including such notable companies as Alcon, Countrywide, Great West Life, General Electric, Pepsico, Yahoo!, and Zurich Financial. Previously, Scott was with i2 Technologies in various senior sales roles where he closed multi-million dollars in new business in the Western Region of the U.S. Scott has also held senior sales positions at ClearOrbit and Pitney Bowes. He holds a B.A. degree from the University of Arizona.

Pierre Raynaud-Richard
Vice President, Engineering

Pierre is a seasoned technology executive who has led engineering strategy and product delivery for numerous generations of product from operating systems to complex, 7x24 applications. In his 16 year engineering career, he has managed engineering teams from 2 to 200 across global development centers to bring complex, world class products to customers. He is a technically distinguished computer scientist as well as respected engineering leader. Pierre has been a member of company leadership teams during company launch, M&A, IPO, turnarounds, and complex litigation.

Pierre joins PSS from Openwave where he was Vice President of Engineering (end to end) and led several engineering and product teams over his tenure. Prior to Openwave, he was Vice President of Engineering R&D at PalmSource. He also held the VP of Engineering post at Be Incorporated, a very innovative technology company where he worked from 1995 to 2001. He graduated from Ecole Polytechnique de Paris and Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications in France.

Eric Saltzman
Chief Financial Officer

Eric Saltzman heads the company's finance, administration, and legal functions. He has more than 15 years of experience leading the finance function at private and public technology companies. He joins PSS Systems from Vendavo, where he was CFO. Prior to Vendavo, Eric held CFO positions at Qualys, TimesTen, Inc. and Electronics for Imaging, Inc. At EFI, he also led the company's business development and licensing operations for many years. Eric previously spent six years advising technology companies as a corporate attorney at Cooley Godward, on matters ranging from strategic partnerships to initial public offerings. Eric holds a Bachelor of Arts from Swarthmore College and a Juris Doctor from Stanford University.

Reza Memar
Sr. Director, Client Services and Support

Reza Memar has over 20 years of experience in product and solution definition, development, deployment, and support of various software technologies. He was most recently Director of Customer Service at Caymas Systems where he built the team and infrastructure to successfully roll out the Caymas Identity Based Access Gateway from initial release to more than 100 enterprise customers. Prior to Caymas, Reza was Director of Deployment & Support at Liberate Technologies where he was responsible for roll out and support of for its worldwide customers. Reza spent the first fifteen years of his career at Hewlett-Packard starting as a software engineer on HP's Unix based TCP/IP suite. He held various positions in HP's R&D and Services organizations. His last position at HP was Director of Support & Services in Internet Infrastructure Division where he successfully delivered Messaging, Metering and Content Delivery products to worldwide telecommunication companies. Reza holds a BS in Industrial and Systems Engineering from University of Southern California and an MS in Computer Science from San Diego State University.